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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53263	The old leaven purged out, or, The apostacy of this day further opened being a true and faithfull narrative of the orderly prooceedings [sic] and dealings of the lesser part of the congregation formerly walking with Mr. John Sympson, with and against severall souldiers of the army, who (being fallen in with the apostacy of this day, contrary to professed and declared principles, and the many out-goings of the Lord thereupon) are withdrawn and separated from, together with Mr. Sympson their chief abettor, and others, after neer two years labouring whilest while we were in the congregation, and neer two years more since : as also the true coppies of seven of the letters which Mr. Sympson wrote with his own hand, and sent to the congregation an answer to several objections that have been, or may be raised against printing and published the whole : all humbly presented to publique view, not in strife, vain-glory, or to be seen of men, but we hope out of conscience, to endeavor a recovering of the name of the Lord ...	Hathorn, Humphrey.	1658 (1658)	Wing O205; ESTC R32246	96,744	101

maintain them in the injoyment of a maintenance which by the Mother of Harlots is inforced and compelled from the People Sweet Jesus open the eyes of the People of England that they may see themselves in the midst of Babylon Dear Brethren be not offended with the subject of this Letter I am bound as a Watchman to give you notice of the approching of the Beast and be not offended with my manner of expressing of my self It is best to speak of Christian and Antichristian things and persons in the language of the Scripture or Scripture like words What I write I write with a good conscience without doubting or wavering blessed be Jehovah for it and therefore receive it in love learn to love every truth of God if any of you be otherwise minded concerning this matter God shall reveal even this unto you in the mean while whereunto you have already attained walk by the same Rule of Christ and minde the same things Pray to God that he may keep you sound in the Faith which I hope you have received from Jesus Christ and take heed of those deceitful workers who overthrow the plain and simple gospel of Christ Do not hazard your own soules endamage the soules of others not encourage them by lending an ear unto their Sermons and discourses beware of familistical and notional wolves in sheeps clothing remember that victory over false Teachers is part of that victory which we have by Christ Ye are of God little Children and have overcome them John 4.4 Because greater is he that is in you then he that is in the world If any therefore come into your City and bring not the plain Doctrine of Faith according to Godliness bid them not God speed for he that biddeth them God speed is partaker of their evill deeds 2 John 10.11 Do not murther Soules by encouraging Soul-murtherers by hearing of them but beware lest being led away by the errour of the wicked you fall from your own stedfastness 2 Pet. 3.16.17 But grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ To him be glory both now and for ever Amen Your Brother in the Spirit of Jesus John Sympson Windsor the 2. Moneth the 8 th day 1654. This is a true Coppy of the Originall examined by us Tho. Cary. John Clements Dear Brethren I Have thorow mercy a whole week together tasted the sweetness of God in close Imprisonment it is nothing to be alone if it be for many years together where there is a gracious presence of God he that with Enoch walketh with God can never be alone It was the speech of an heathen I am never less alone then when I am alone how much more may a Christian say who in truth can say Truly my fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Unless the New Courtiers did love me very well they would not deal with me as they do If they knew what an Advantage close Imprisonment were unto me That my Faith Joyes Hope Sanctification might arise higher my Father gave forth his Orders that the under Gaolers should keep me close Prisoner Father if thou wilt be so sweet in all thy dispensations to thy worthless and vile Creature though by grace thy Son it shall not be grievous unto me If it shall please thee to suffer them to deal more roughly and barbarously with me God is so sweet that I cannot but glory in Tribulations I have my wife and children about me while I am alone because my Jesus is with me My personal Communion is so sweet with God that were it not that I would not live onely to my self and my own comforts in glorifying God but do desire to be usefull unto others in glorifying God I should never desire more external Liberty God doth smile upon me yea that you may wax confident by my Imprisonment and not be ashamed of my reproach I must tell you the cause for which I suffer doth smile upon me Who am I that God hath so highly honoured me in thinking me worthy to suffer for Righteousnesse sake in bearing witness against the Covetousnesse Lies Perjuries Hypocrisies and Tyranicall Practises of Men I would not change my Imprisoned condition with the highest condition of my persecutors and oppressors How much is it better to be a persecuted Saint then a Persecutor The Lord will succour and relieve the oppressed but will break in pieces the oppressor I begin to be perswaded that there is some truth in the things which formerly I spake doubtfully of About at twelve moneth since in Martins fields I was transported into a Spirit beyond my own and in it the downfall of great O. was revealed unto me About the dissolution of the Parliament I saw great O. four severall Mornings Intellectually In the first he was hastily running towards a Crown In the second he sat in a Chair of State In the third he was presented with a part of Horns upon his head and in the fourth he was shamefully tumbled from his Pomp and Glory I have seen the three first come to pass and for the third I do now more fully understand it then ever I did His two Horns are his Tyrannical Power by which he doth push at and persecute the poor Saints and his Antichristian power by which in things Spiritual and Ecclesiastical he doth oppose Christ in his Royal Prerogatives as he is King of Saints and an appointer and ordainer of Preachers according to his own Laws I pitty the man in the place in which he is now seated If he were an Angel in his present place and feat he could not but be a persecutor of the Saints for he is one of the ten horns of the Beast which must make war with the Lamb but he shall overcome him for he is Lord of lords and King of kings and they that are with him are called chosen and faithful Rev. 17.14 I had an impulse of Spirit in which I was strongly carried to believe that that Bastardly Government in the setting up of which the mouthes of Gods enemies were opened to blaspheme should die and not live though in it self it might be good enough and too good for us unless we did walk more worthy of our mercies yet considering it as set up by them who declared so much for the Liberty of the free born people of England and the Interest of Christ it is a bastard begotten conceived in a night of Hypocrisie and brought forth in a day of bold faced impiety and the Lord will make a grave for it for it is vild I did apprehend that great O. was set up by God permissively by the Dragon voluntarily by himself ambitiously by the Army cowardly by willing Saints Trayterously and by unwilling Saints passively mournfully I do repeat these things that you may know I am confirmed not weakned in my perswasions that you may know what comfortable ground I have to wait for

Robes Revenues c out of the spoils of the late Monarchy and put them among their ownstuff which ought to be improved to carry on the work of the Lord but also the old bribing practice of giving receiving honors with other arbitrary antichristian powers that part of the accursed thing which should wholly be destroyed to uphold themselves and court in that outward Pomp Pride Luxury yea greater oppression tyranny which so much faith prayer appeals hath formerly been put up and exercised blood and treasure spent for the ruin and destruction of Kings in Chains and Nobles in Feters of Iron c. But oh that which we desire to mourn before the Lord for is That after nine or ten years War wherein for the latter part thereof our adversaries have been but as dust before the Wind not being able to stand before the Faith Prayers and Persons of the Lords people either by Sea or Land Wherein we cannot but think that the dispensation of the Lord hath been somewhat like that of Israel in their journey to Canaan and our present standing somewhat like that in the sixth and seventh of Joshua where Achan thorough his Covetousness made bold with a wedge of Gold and Babylonish Garment contrary to the command of the Lord in the destruction of Jericho upon which account it is called an Accursed thing wherein give us leave humbly to observe this e e Mr. Sympson upon asecond day at All hallows spake from Ioshua 6.26 Cursed be the man before the lord that riseth up and buildâ—s the Citie Iericho c. and raised the same observation from the words that we have here inserted and did then say That he looked upon the late King and his Monarchy with the Hierarchy of the Bishops to be that Jericho in whose ruin the lord was as much glorified as in that of Jericho being the fruite of the faith and prayers of the lords people as well as of their persons and that whosoever should build it or when built maintain it did hazard the bringing themselves under the curse of the lord for so doing and by way of allusion unto Jericho did spiritually discover the present apostacy manifesting how dangerous it was to be an abettor unto and a complyer with the lericho builders of this day That that person or those persons who shall build that which the Lord hath got himself so much glory in the destruction of do transgress the Command of the Lord and hazard the bringing themselves under the Curse of the Lord for so doing and such also who partake with them in this their building become guilty thereof before the Lord and not onely so but to partake of the Wedge of God and Babylonish Garment surely such persons are in a high measure accessary to such transgressions by means whereof the Work of the Lord is retarded as to any visible appearance yea he is withdrawn from us and goeth not forth with our Forces f Hath there not been a series of providences loudly witnessing against the present apostacy since its first rise and to mention but three or four of many First In frustrating the consultations of both his Parliaments though as we conceive they were called and garbled on purpose to settle the person in power Secondly the very chargeable and in a great measure fruitless expedition of the Navy to the Straits Thirdly The wonderful blasting that so much boasted of design to and at Hypaniola though some have vainly said That the Lord was bound to carry on that design to manifest their integrity for Christs interest yet hath it hitherto been greatly dishonourable to this Nation and the loss of many thousand lives by a few cow-killers and a great mortality there and at Iamaica Fourthly In not onely withdrawing the prayers of his people from but engaging them against it and their forces doth clearly declare that God is departed from them and become their Enemy Isa 26 11 by Sea or Land as of old but we fall and consume away before our Enemies according to that in Isa 30.15 16 17. And now give us leave in the fear of the Lord and we hope in humility to declare That our dear brethren who wear the Sword to maintain the present Power and Government the new erected Jericho of this day being all of the formerly engaged for God and Christ before the present Apostacy cannot free themselves from those publike sins laid before them by us in the presence of the Congregation to wit First Treason contrary to an Act g If every just Ordinance of man ought to be obeyed 1 Pet 2 13 then surely this Act of Jan. 30. 1648 with that of March 17. following see Looking-Glass pag. 43 44. being a fruit of the Parliament together with the Lords people and the armies publike testimony against Oppression and Tyranny as also Monarchy the foundation thereof in prosecution whereof the Army and Navy were wonderfully blessed against all opposers not that we magnifie that form of Government otherwise then as we saw it at that time more conducing to the advancement of the interest of Christ and the Nations liberty and more refined in its nature than Kingly Government could be at the best from whom many corrupt members being purged Tyranny was in some measure supprest and the cause of Christ carryed on in opposition to antichrist for otherwise we judge that all forms of mens invention may be broken and made void when they answer not the end for which they were appointed made by Parliament the then Authority of this Nation after many out-goings of God not onely against the late King as a Tyrant but against his Monarchy as the root of Tyranny whereby the Form as well as the Power was destroyed as that Jericho which stood in opposition to the Lord his Cause and People so that to build it or when built to maintain it the Lord being much glorified in the ruin of it can be no less then publikely scandalous for without the Army of which our Brethren are Members and some of them very eminent in office in the judgement of reason this h An image of the Beast in regard it prosecutes the same tyrannical interest from a tincture of the same spirit which the late King did stands upon the same yea a more bloody bottom so much of the Saints others blood being shed in opposition to it is more arbitrary then the former having first by himself and secondly under the false cover of a second garbled Company of Sallary and self-interested men without the lords people and the Nations consent taken the Military power and a negative voice c. which no King ever was allowed and is not onely sinful and scandalous but contrary to the mind of the lord and right Reason Therefore when Soul through a spirit of apostacy in and from the wrath of God upon the people was chosen king Samuel declared he would be such a one 1 Sam. 8.9

upon our hearts to have delivered by word of mouth should be done in vvriting as vvell for your sakes as in discharge of our own duty according to the Rule of the Gospel and therefore vve intreat that you will suffer us hereby to plead a little vvith you for truths sake and vve hope it is unfeignedly upon our hearts to lay your great sin before you from some sense of the great dishonour brought unto the Name of the Lord by you and let these lines be patiently read through before you judge you poor unvvorthy brethren and sisters for we can truly say that we disire to mourn and groan in secret for you as well as for our own vveaknesses and this is some part of our joy That in simplicity and godly sincerity many of us have been by the space of two years and upwards endeavouring to get your feet as well as our own out of the Snare of the apostacy of this day having compassion of you as of our own souls for we are in some measure perswaded that some eminent hand of the Lord wil be manifested in due time to distinguish between those that serve him faithfully and those that serve him not In the first place therefore we pray you to consider the six great and scandalous sins laid to the charâ—g of the brethren amongst you wearing the Sword which for brevity sake we shall here onely mention referring you to our paper already given in for a more particular knowledge thereof wherein We desire the Scriptures in the margent may be diligently perused and some remembrance had of vvhat the Lord did inable us to speak from them when our Paper vvas debated in the Church although it is very vvell knovvn so much liberty vvas hardly obtained First Treason against Christ as King and Prophet of his people and King of Nations also for the latter part of the late VVar did run in that Channel Likewise against the faithful and vvell-affected in this Nation whose Liberties and they are made bond-slaves to their brethren though some blood was spilt and treasure spent to obtain it our of the hands of the late Tyrant Secondly Convenant-breaking and false swearing having engaged before the Lord and his People to perform the good promised on the behalf of Christ his People and the Nation vvhich are novv broken in the face of the Sun Thirdly Oppression by Tythes Taxes c. upon the bodyes and consciences of the Lords People and the well-affected the Nation at this day Fourthly Persecution of Saints many of the Lords people having been and some are still imprisoned for their testimony on the behalf of the Lord his Cause and the Nations liberty and therein the Souldiers are altogether active there being no rule not so much as according to the Law of the Land to justifie their practice by Civil Officers Fifthly Maintaining Antichristian Laws Statutes and Customs contrary to former Engagements and Declarations by vvhich the Saints of old have suffered and some do now suffer at this very day Sixthly Hereby the hearts of the righteous are greatly grieved for that brethren at least professing themselves so to be should be active in abetting and supporting so great vvikedness That these sins were plainly proved against our brethren wearing the Svvord novv amongst you is very manifest not onely in general but also in a great measure particularly and therfore shall leave it unto the Lord vvho judgeth righteously Yet vve do hereby humbly admonish them of their evil as being very great and scandalous After this there is laid down several Queries how vve vvere in duty bound to withdraw from them and by the same Rule to admonish and withdraw from your selves as being partakers with them having made your selves m Guilty for they are hereby encouraged to keep their places whereby the Man in Power is encouraged to go on in his apostacy and to judge himself in pretence at least to be in a good condition for when he hath been told That he had not the love of good people as formerly and that many were grieved at his present actions he replyed They were but a few inconsiderable people who were dissatisfied for the greatest part of honest men in the Army and Churches were for him and approved of what he had done which approhensions are begotten by members of Churches and other professors holding places under him for whilest they do so their tongues are tyed that they dare not openly speak their minds though they really apprehend yea and will to some confess That the present state of things are out of course and are not so honest as in the day of their straits they declared they should be Wherefore doth is not concern the Churches to take heed how they encourage those by continuing them among them who abet and uphold the present apostacy lest they become guilty thereof themselves and incur the Lords displeasure for so doing guilty of their iniquity by your vote of communion with them And this vve do in obedience to our Lord Jesus Christ who hath commanded us to withdraw from every brother that walks disorderly though herein we would distinguish between such of our Brethren Sisters as do plead for encourage and support them in their evil and others who for want of a true knowledge understanding thereof together with the overawing of some amongst you as we fear are notwithstanding in their degree also become partakers with them in their evil And here desire so far to digress as to answer one objection namely That our brethren the Souldiers desired leave to go off from us before we procceded so far as now we have but we would not To which vve answer That it is to be considered their sins are very scandalous and if so such a practice would be contrary to the Rule directing in such cases That if a brother or brethren offend to admonish them particularly then more publikely as he or they are found to persevere in their sin that if the Lord will they may see their evil and repent and not suffer them to go off without knowledge of their evil for if they should it may prove to the hardening of their hearts and consequently to the ruine of their souls Indeed to have let them gone off would have been much more easie to us and pleasing to the flesh for we did in some measure foresee how hard it would be in this rough path to follow the Lord fully yet we take comfort in this That our Cause is of God and our hearts we trust in the main upright therein Now we shall proceed to give you a short account how the Lord hath led us since our said withdrawing wherin it will be manifest if the Lord give you a spirit of discerning that we have to this day been patiently waiting upon the Lord and you to the end that if it had pleased our heavenly Father it might have put you upon inquiry how far you are become

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